[reportlab-users] Writing to stdout

[Rob Allen]

Hi,

I’m trying to write to stdout and it’s not working.

I’m using Python 3.8.6 with a clean virtualenv into which I ran `pip install reportlab`.


$ python --version
Python 3.8.6

$ pip freeze
Pillow==8.1.0
reportlab==3.5.59


This is my test application, based on page 11 of the manual where I changed the filename to sys.stdout:

$ cat test.py
import sys
from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

def hello(c):
   c.drawString(100, 100, "Hello World")

c = canvas.Canvas(sys.stdout)
hello(c)
c.showPage()
c.save()


This is what happens when I run it:

$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
   c.save()
 File "/Users/rob/.pyenv/versions/py386/lib/python3.8/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/canvas.py", line 1277, in save
   self._doc.SaveToFile(self._filename, self)
 File "/Users/rob/.pyenv/versions/py386/lib/python3.8/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py", line 222, in SaveToFile
   f.write(data)
TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes


Am I specifying the stdout stream incorrectly or missing something else?


Regards,

Rob


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